#mansome

Just realized someone off-camera says “take their picture” after Will gets a good, long whiff.  

Mansome wasn’t the best amusing documentary but it wasn’t bad.

My biggest complaint would be that they acted like this men’s grooming thing is more modern phenomenon. It’s more like it’s just coming back. Just look at men’s fashion in the 1700s

Morgan Spurlock, whose documentaries cover obesity, marketing, grooming and Morgan Spurlock, turns 50. A few of his joints:

Super Size Me (2004). For this documentary about the relation of fast food to American obesity, Spurlock ate a steady diet of all McDonald’s all the time (and any time a cashier suggested “Supersizing” the meal, he had to comply). The film chronicles the filmmaker’s physical effects (30 lb weight gain, skyrocketing blood pressure, higher cholesterol and depression). The film was nominated for an Oscar and allegedly caused McDonald’s to discontinue Super Sizing. And it introduced a documentarian with a breezy, ironic sense of humor (“Right now I’ve got some McGas that’s rockin’. I feel like I’ve got some McSweats goin’. My arms got the McTwitches going in her from all the sugar that’s going in my body right now. I’m feeling a little McCrazy.) about things that aren’t necessarily funny.

POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011). In this conceptual masterpiece Spurlock examines the effect that marketing and advertising has on the world, concentrating on movie product placement. The movie is itself financed entirely by sponsors ranging from JetBlue Airlines, Old Navy, Sheetz convenience stores and of course POM pomegranate juice who paid a million bucks to be in the films title. There’s no pretense that Spurlock isn’t selling the capitalist the rope to hang themselves with but the sponsors are also confident that they can play the “who’s using who” game better than the filmmaker, which leads to some suspense as to who will come out with less dirt on their shoes (Spoiler alert: no one. This is America.)